World’s Largest Working Hydro-Electric Wave Energy Device
Launched
Known as Oyster, the device has been officially launched by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond MP, MSP at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney.
It is currently the world's only hydro-electric wave energy device producing power and is now producing power by pumping high pressure water to its onshore hydro-electric turbine. This will be fed into the National Grid to power homes in Orkney and beyond. A farm of 20 Oysters would provide enough energy to power 9,000 three bedroom family homes.
Construction has begun off Oregon's coast on the first commercial U.S. wave-energy farm, planned to supply power to about 400 homes. The first buoy will measure 150 feet tall by 40 feet wide, weigh 200 tons and cost $4 million, according to Phil Pellegrino, spokesman for New Jersey-based developer Ocean Power Technologies, which is developing the project. He says in the story that nine more buoys are planned to deploy at a site in Reedsport, Ore., by 2012, at a total cost of $60 million.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/02/oregon-gets-first-us-wave-power-farm/1 & http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/reedsport.htm
In December
2009, Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. deployed one of its PowerBuoys®
at the US Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) at Kaneohe Bay. The Oahu PowerBuoy was launched under the Company's ongoing program
with the US Navy for ocean testing and demonstration of PowerBuoys.
This PowerBuoy is unique in that it incorporates
advanced design features into OPT’s proprietary PowerBuoy
platform for improved efficiency. The sea trials have produced power in
accordance with the system’s specifications for local wave conditions. http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/projects.htm
2 New & Innovative Ocean Wave Energy Devices - ANSYS Inc is a global trend setter of simulation software and technologies to assist in converting the persistent forces of ocean waves into electricity. Green Ocean Energy Ltd, an Aberdeen based company, is developing mechanisms to harness energy from the Earth’s oceans, focusing on things such as the economic viability and sustainability of their products. (Alt Energy News; Oct. 5, 2009)
Directory: Wave Power http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Ocean_Wave_Energy
Sea Dog Pump www.inri.us/index.php/SEADOG
The state of
Texas granted its first-ever offshore lease for a wave-
http://www.worldpumps.com/view/4654/seadog-pumps-bottle-water-for-renew-blue/
River Power (Projects currently operational or under construction)
In late 2008, Hydro Green Energy, in partnership with the City of Hastings, MN, installed the United States’ first-ever commercial, federally-licensed hydrokinetic power station. Power operations began in early 2009 at this Hydro+ ™ facility. http://www.hgenergy.com/hastings.html
Mississippi Hydro Green projects: http://www.hgenergy.com/mississippi.html
Brookfield Power/Minneapolis Mississippi River Power Project/: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/11/05/dems-tour-hydroelectric-project/
Verdant Power East River/ New York http://verdantpower.com/what-initiative/
Other projects: http://verdantpower.com/
Underwater
Electric Kite (UEK) http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Underwater_Electric_Kite_Corporation#Official_Website
